I get the same error, however I am using php 4.4.2 with Apache 2. I've narrowed down the problem to a file_get_contents call. I get no feedback except for a notice that Apache HTTP Server encountered a problem and needs to restart. Any ideas?

As far as I can tell there is no cache or accelerator. I am working in a devloper environment on my own machine. It's running WinXP Pro SP2. PHP 4.2.2 was installed without any special changes to the php.ini. I used the zipped Windows version. The php.ini memory_limit directive was set to 8M. I changed it to 8192 to see if that would make a difference, but it didn't.

I checked the phpInfo() command and noticed that the memory_limit directive does not show up. Further reading led me to the memory_get_usage() command which I tried and found that it only works when PHP is compiled with the --enable-memory-limit configuration option. Is there a way to set this directive to on when using a windows environment? Could this be the problem?